April is a critical month for many of the top college basketball players in the country. Underclassmen have until April 29 to declare for the NBA Draft. The decision is much more complex than just declaring. The NCAA allows basketball players to declare for the NBA Draft without losing their eligibility only if they don’t […]
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[NCAA Championship] Loss still revives basketball fever at Pauley
Sitting in Pauley Pavilion on Monday night, it hit me. UCLA basketball is back. I know this seems like an odd thing to say after a loss. But as I sat in college basketball’s most hallowed arena, watching the clock wind down and Florida’s Corey Brewer dance ridiculously with the ball, I was witnessing something […]
Pac-10 tourney loses its punch
The Pac-10 Tournament begins today. But it shouldn’t. For the first time ever, all 10 Pac-10 men’s basketball teams will compete in the conference tournament instead of the usual eight. And while eight is the perfect number for a conference tournament, 10 is an awful number. All 10 Pac-10 teams qualifying for the Pac-10 Tournament […]
Same court, same foe, new loss
Steve Klosterman just kept getting kill after kill. And they weren’t your ordinary kills, either ““ on multiple occasions his kills hit opponents with so much force that they stumbled and took a couple of steps backward in visible pain and confusion. The UCLA junior opposite had 27 kills in all Wednesday night, a career-high […]
Dirtbags can’t bury Bruins
The UCLA baseball team pulled an upset Tuesday night, winning at Long Beach State 6-3. The Bruins entered the game on a three-game losing streak, but snapped it, improving their record to 6-9 and beating a ranked team in the No. 15 Dirtbags (9-5). UCLA had not won a game at Long Beach’s Blair Field […]
Losses to ‘SC getting old
For UCLA fans, the only thing worse than losing is losing to USC. And that’s something we’ve had too much of lately, more than just the men’s and women’s basketball teams losing to USC this past weekend. Sure, Bruin fans have unfortunately gotten used to losing to USC in the big football game every year, […]
Softball fails to score against Long Beach State
The UCLA softball team lost for the first time this season on Wednesday night, 1-0, at Long Beach State. The Bruins had not only entered the game undefeated through five games in this early season, but had been on an offensive tear, scoring 54 runs in five games. That changed against Long Beach, when the […]